Snoop busted fourth time this year!
white_tea
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Snoop needs to chill. I can't see him not doing a little time for all this business. They needed three paragraghs just to sum up his arrests from this year alone.
Snoop Dogg arrested after 'Tonight Show' performance[/b]LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Police arrested rapper Snoop Dogg on weapons and narcotics charges after his performance Tuesday on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."Burbank police Sgt. Kevin Grandalski said the charges include possession of a gun, cocaine and marijuana. He also is accused of having a false compartment in a vehicle. The weapons charge is a felony.Tuesday's incident was the latest of several arrests for Snoop Dogg -- whose real name is Calvin Broadus. Police pulled his vehicle over shortly after after he appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show" and performed songs "That's That S...!" and "I Want to Love."The 35-year-old musician from Sherman Oaks has sold more than 17 million records and starred in films.In 1990, Snoop Dogg was convicted on a felony narcotics possession charge for trying to sell cocaine.Report: Attorney says rapper 'innocent'Donald Etra, the rapper's attorney, told The Associated Press that Snoop Dogg "was in a car pulling out of the studio" when police stopped him Tuesday.Etra told the AP he believed his client was booked at jail for investigation of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He made bail of $60,000 and was released shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, about seven hours after the arrest, according to the AP."As of this point, he stands innocent of all charges," Etra told the AP. "The goal tonight was to get him out of jail. The goal tomorrow is to deal with the case." The rapper was expected to be arraigned on January 11, Etra told the AP.On November 2, Snoop Dogg was charged with one felony count of knowingly possessing a deadly weapon -- a collapsible baton -- while trying to board a plane in Santa Ana, Orange County authorities said. A spokeswoman for the performer denied the charges and said the baton was "a prop" he inadvertently had included in his carry-on luggage.On October 26, Snoop Dogg was arrested at an airport in Burbank, and booked for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and transportation of a controlled substance. He posted $35,000 bail. His publicist said the performer was scheduled to appear in court in December.On April 26, Snoop Dogg and several members of his entourage were detained by police at London's Heathrow Airport after a skirmish that left seven police officers with minor injuries.The incident happened after Snoop Dogg and his crew were told by the airline they would not be permitted to board a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, Scotland Yard said. As police tried to direct the group to baggage reclaim, they became "abusive and pushed officers," according to Scotland Yard.The seven police officers received minor injuries, including cuts and bruises, and one suffered a fractured hand.While in England for his 1994 "Doggystyle" tour, he was nearly kicked out of the country after a Tory minister and British tabloids raised objections to his presence while he faced murder charges in the United States. He later was cleared of those charges.
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Errrmmm...so, what exactly was dude's ride stopped for?
Snoops is just a sitting duck at this point. "Pull him over. He's GOT TO HAVE something on him."
Riding dirty.
Yeah, I noticed how they failed to mention that too....
When I get a lowrider its going to have a secret compartment too.
And a door gunner.
or not.
but damn, a door gunner would be kinda ill. "This is my door gunner, Rick. He did 2 tours in the 'Nam. Say hello, Rick. Rick? Rick? Oh goddamit, he's having a flashback again."
TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE
Report: Bad cops protected
Chicago brass ignores culprits, key expert says
By David Heinzmann, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Todd Lighty contributed to this report
Published November 29, 2006
Chicago police officials have deliberately ignored corruption within the ranks, giving bad cops a sense of security to commit crimes on the job without being caught, according to a national expert on internal affairs hired by plaintiffs suing the city.
The damning report by Lou Reiter, a former deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, contends that police officials, including Supt. Philip Cline, have continued a "practice of indifference" toward corruption that "makes officers who engage in misconduct feel protected."
He says in the report that although the department has legitimate guidelines against police misconduct, officials don't enforce the policies.
Reiter has advised nearly 1,000 police departments, including New York's, and has been hired by the City of Chicago as an expert witness in police-brutality lawsuits at least four times.
Chicago police officials say the criticism is based on limited knowledge of the department, and it does not take into consideration policy reforms currently under way to thwart corruption and abuse before it becomes a problem.
Reiter's report is part of a federal lawsuit filed a decade ago by a husband and wife pair of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents. They charge that after they blew the whistle on corrupt cop Joseph Miedzianowski, he influenced the Internal Affairs Division to turn the tables and attack their credibility.
Despite the age of the lawsuit, Reiter's analysis of the department was completed this year. As part of the same lawsuit, a former assistant U.S. attorney testified that in each of the 18 corrupt-cop cases he prosecuted, he encountered a "blue wall of silence," in which fellow officers turned a blind eye to corruption and later resisted cooperating with criminal investigations of their colleagues.
The blue wall includes not only failing to report the criminal conduct of fellow officers, "but actually not interrupting or stopping the criminal activities if you come about them," the former U.S. attorney, Brian Netols, testified in a sworn deposition. Although he had left the government for private practice at the time of his deposition, Netols has since rejoined the U.S. attorney's office as a prosecutor.
The testimony comes at a time when the Chicago Police Department is on the defensive about its handling of corrupt officers. There has been ongoing criticism since the release in July of a special prosecutor's report alleging that detectives under Cmdr. Jon Burge tortured suspects in the 1980s while the department often looked the other way.
And the arrests of four members of the Special Operations Section in September revealed that police internal affairs had been aware of numerous allegations against the officers for four years without taking disciplinary action against them.
Cline said that the charges against Jerome Finnigan, Carl Suchocki, Keith Herrera and Thomas Sherry showed the department has zero tolerance for corruption. But the men were charged with a string of robberies, kidnappings and false arrests only after the Cook County state's attorney's office began to investigate the officers because of their behavior in court.
While Cline and other officials have professed that the department does not tolerate corruption or brutality, the report and Netols' testimony suggest that police leaders know their policies are inadequate and have done little to reform.
Reviewed many records
Reiter based his charges on a review of department policies, depositions of police officials and prosecutors in court cases, department reports and statistics on corruption and abuse complaints against officers.
Police officials "made a conscious choice to not implement a reasonable system to identify and remediate officers who exhibit negative performance, behavior and/or attitudinal problems," according to the report.
Reiter declined to be interviewed about his report, citing the pending litigation.
Police officials acknowledge that their methods to identify patterns of complaints against officers have not been effective in the past. But the department is testing a new system that would not only identify patterns, but also do a better job of reinforcing ethical conduct before officers stray, said Assistant Deputy Supt. Deb Kirby, who took over the Internal Affairs Division 2 1/2 years ago.
"Most large law enforcement agencies are struggling to identify poor performance issues," Kirby said. "Most are doing it under mandates with the federal government. The Chicago Police Department is doing this on their own."
Kirby also takes issue with Netols' suggestion that it is part of the department's culture to turn a blind eye toward corruption.
"On a day-to-day basis, I deal with officers who have integrity and ethics who call the Internal Affairs Division to report conduct they observe," she said.
Reiter and Netols are expected to testify in the trial of the suit brought by former ATF agent Diane Klipfel and her husband, Michael Casali, who is still an agent. The couple allege their careers, and to some extent their lives, were ruined when they tried to blow the whistle on Miedzianowski in the early 1990s. Instead of investigating Miedzianowski, internal affairs officials turned the probe on Klipfel and Casali, and years passed before the FBI investigated and indicted the notorious gang investigator.
Other experts who have probed the Police Department's handling of complaints have come away with similar findings. The Police Department's methods of investigating its own have been deeply flawed for a long time, said law professor Craig Futterman, who has studied the department's handling of complaints against officers.
Futterman, who teaches at the University of Chicago, gathered data for his studies during lawsuits in which he represented alleged victims of police abuse.
"What I see is a picture of impunity within the Chicago Police Department. You have a small number of officers who perpetrate crimes who have absolute impunity," he said.
A relatively small number of police officers are responsible for the vast majority of complaints, he said. Over the last five years, about 5 percent of police officers have a troubling number of complaints against them, Futterman said. About 85 percent of officers have been the subject of three or fewer complaints. But he identified 662 officers, out of about 13,500, with 10 or more complaints.
Even when negative public attention from a police scandal is focused on how the department handles internal investigations, he said, the results are often ineffective.
"There's a big police scandal, and you'll get these big pronouncements, `internal investigation,' `no stone unturned,' and `we're going to do all these great things,'" Futterman said. "And then the dust settles, and it ends up being business as usual."
man, it must suck being a rapper and having to increase sales by getting either shot in the knee or arrested. I'm so glad I make klezmer music, all I need to do to increase sales is somehow become jewish
TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK-A-TAK!
"DAMMIT, RICK! THAT WAS JUST MY NEIGHBOR TAKING OUT THE TRASH!"
NOOOO!!!!!
you were a good neighbor, Maggie.
"dammit rick, the brass is burning holes in my new apholstrey. Police that shit up."
basically
not to say it isn't fucked up for snoop to be arrested, but gottam at some point you just got to take the hint and leave the guns, coke, and weed with your assistant
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